<p>I want to double major in philosophy and engineering (probably mechanical or compsci). The engineering major is pretty huge (110 units), although philosophy is only 90. Is this combination doable? Thanks in advance for any help</p>
<p>I know of students with double majors in computer science and economics at Stanford. It is doable, but, as you say, the course requirements are large. If you have AP credit which will excuse you from courses such as Calculus, Physics, and can place out of the foreign language requirement, it will make double majoring more feasible.</p>
<p>Mechanical Engineering is 125-135, CS is 97-112, Philosophy is 55. It takes about 30-40 units to finish all the GERs. You can take up to 20 units a quarter. In theory, you can complete 240 units by the time you graduate. In practice that might be difficult to do. If you really want to double major in philosophy and engineering I suggest taking the classes you need for engineering as a freshman and the philosophy IHUM (this kills 5 units of the philosophy requirement, and it's a great class!). Then take some philosophy sophomore year and see if you like it. </p>
<p>You can also major in one subject in minor in another. That might be a more realistic goal.</p>
<p>MotherOfTwo:</p>
<p>I was considering double majoring in CS and Economics (presuming I get in next year...). Is this a fairly common route among those who are double majoring? How "doable" is it?</p>
<p>Marlgirl, how many units is electrical engineering? Since computer science is only 100ish units (compared to mechEng), will double majoring be more feasible with this combination?
I will probably get a lot more AP credit than usual because I am doing A level further math, which has things like 2nd order diff. equations, power series, damped s.h.m, etc. </p>
<p>Does double majoring totally kill free time? I dont want to have to working all the time.</p>
<p>Thanks guys</p>
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<p>Double majoring in itself does not mean you won't have any free time. It depends on how many credits you already have for the major, if you want to take any classes outside of either major, etc. You need 180 credits to graduate. Taking 14-17 units/quarter is pretty typical. Assuming you take 16 units/quarter, that's 192 units... which is about as many units as it will take to complete your two majors and all your GERs. Some quarters you might have to take more than 16 units, which is totally doable. I took 19 last quarter and am taking 20 this quarter. (20 is the max, 12 is the min)</p>
<p>Oh okay, so by double majoring, i'm not necessarily doing more work, i'm just focusing most of my work on 2 fields?
Do many kids do doublt majors?</p>
<p>I'm kind of confused. I just read somewhere about 'hidden' units in engineering majors, classes that dont count toward the major but are prerequisites for classes required for the major. Are those classes included the unit totals marlgirl gave for the engineering majors? And, where can I myself find these totals. The bulletin seems very vague</p>
<p>To answer Tetragrammaton's question, it is possible to double major in CS and Economics, but I believe that it is more common to major in one of these subjects and minor in the other.</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>I guess everyone's too busy to post a reply?</p>
<p><a href="http://ughb.stanford.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://ughb.stanford.edu/</a></p>
<p>This is a link to the Stanford Engineering Undergraduate Handbook. It may give a lot more detail about requirements than the Bulletin and may be helpful to you.</p>
<p>i wanna double major in cs and econ too.</p>
<p>is it easy?</p>
<p>doable?</p>
<p>a lot of requirements?</p>
<p>There are a lot of requirements, but I think it is doable, especialy if you come in with considerable AP credit, no foreign language requirement etc. As I said earlier, I believe many who originally intend to do this end up majoring in one and minoring in the other.</p>
<p>i dont have much ap credit.</p>
<p>i got no foreign language req though.</p>